President Cheney?

Not that I'm surprised, but according to Reid [1] , everything (and I mean everything) is run through Cheney's office:

But I think we've come to learn that the intelligence community in America is run by one person -- one person -- and that's the vice president. [Sen. Pat] Roberts, who is the supposed chair of that committee -- I shouldn't say "supposed chair"; he is the chair -- he can't do anything without [Dick Cheney].

Kos [2] also has a really good parsing of this interview.

Tell me how this isn't a coup d-Etat? We never elected the guy (most of us found him rather creepy) and yet he has been consistently the hands behind the face in this administration.

When Hillary took a first-hand role in select governmental affairs, the Right Wing sputtered till they were red in the face. So why are we not allowed to feel the same about a man who has a 30 year history of subverting the democratic process (i.e. Team B in the 70s).

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